Donald Trump keeps rolling along. And things keep getting worse for Hillary Clinton. The real campaign hasn’t even started yet. A lot of Clinton’s misery is of her own making. Trump is a sociopath — who will say anything and stop at nothing to w… . . . → Read More: Northern Reflections: Who Says You Can’t Buy An Election?

Well you'd think Stephen Harper and his pipeline pimps would be celebrating the U.S. State Department's decision to declare the Keystone project almost good to go.The State Department released a report on Friday concluding that the Keystone XL pipeline would not substantially worsen carbon pollution, leaving an opening for President Obama to approve . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: The Harper Oil Pimps and the Attack of the Billionaires

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Authored by Jenny Uechi, originally published at Vancouver Observer. Re-posted with permisison.

U.S. libertarian oil billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have poured at least half a million dollars into The Fraser Institute over the last few years. In case you haven't been following their trail, here's a bit about them:

A new chapter is being added to the ongoing Kochtopus saga. On March 1 the Washington Post, in a story sure to fill the airwaves for the weeks and months to come, revealed the Kochtopus is suing the Cato Institute for control of the recently deceased and former Cato Chairman William Niskanen's ownership share in the think-tank.